He deserves the book of Brown to be added to the bible because he was in fact on a mission from god. That said he did fail to build the subterranean passway which would have been far better than martyrdom. Imagine a prolonged guerrilla campaign of raiding Virginian plantations all along the Appalachian mountains. Sheparding freed slaves north and recruiting others to fight. It success would've broken abolitionist pacifism long before the civil war and shown them exactly how easy it was to destabilize the entire south.
But he had to get caught because he though George Washington's sword would give his cause magic powers. :deeper-sadness:
The buckel of the sword saved his life during the raid so... Maybe god did mean him to have it. Maybe his plan was for it to keep him alive long enough to properly die as a martyr. The lord works in mysterious ways.
Tubman did help him plan. She's got a whole section on her wiki about her involvement. No one knows if she ever meant to be in the raid but she was sick during it.
Great grand nephew of George Washington, Colonel Lewis Washington, had his estates near Harpers Ferry, where he was stationed, and was rumored to have two relics: a sword given to George by Frederick the Great, and a pair of pistols from Marquis De Lafayette. Other prizes were many slaves to be freed and the Colonel himself as a hostage. Brown had sent a detachment under John Cook Jr. to raid the estate a day before the raid on the armory. Cook had befriended the Colonel previously and had noticed the relics while visiting the Colonels estates.
Now I vaguely remembered from the dollops 3-parter that Brown had a window to escape when things started to go bad but delayed because he was waiting for that detachment to return. But Wikipedia says they returned before the raid and had the relics and Lewis hostage with him in the armory. It even claims the buckle of the sword saved him from a saber thrust.
So maybe I remembered wrong or maybe that pre raid blew his cover early. But he also let a whole train go after telling everyone on board exactly who he was and what he was going to do.
He deserves the book of Brown to be added to the bible because he was in fact on a mission from god. That said he did fail to build the subterranean passway which would have been far better than martyrdom. Imagine a prolonged guerrilla campaign of raiding Virginian plantations all along the Appalachian mountains. Sheparding freed slaves north and recruiting others to fight. It success would've broken abolitionist pacifism long before the civil war and shown them exactly how easy it was to destabilize the entire south.
But he had to get caught because he though George Washington's sword would give his cause magic powers. :deeper-sadness:
OK, but what if he was right?
The buckel of the sword saved his life during the raid so... Maybe god did mean him to have it. Maybe his plan was for it to keep him alive long enough to properly die as a martyr. The lord works in mysterious ways.
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wasn't there also something about General Tubman being sick and unable to help plan the raid?
He asked both Harriett Tubman and Frederick Douglass to join him. Tubman was sick and Douglass though he was cray.
Tubman did help him plan. She's got a whole section on her wiki about her involvement. No one knows if she ever meant to be in the raid but she was sick during it.
She literally did help him plan but was sick at the time of the raid. It wasn't sure if she ever meant to actually participate though.
story time please
Great grand nephew of George Washington, Colonel Lewis Washington, had his estates near Harpers Ferry, where he was stationed, and was rumored to have two relics: a sword given to George by Frederick the Great, and a pair of pistols from Marquis De Lafayette. Other prizes were many slaves to be freed and the Colonel himself as a hostage. Brown had sent a detachment under John Cook Jr. to raid the estate a day before the raid on the armory. Cook had befriended the Colonel previously and had noticed the relics while visiting the Colonels estates.
Now I vaguely remembered from the dollops 3-parter that Brown had a window to escape when things started to go bad but delayed because he was waiting for that detachment to return. But Wikipedia says they returned before the raid and had the relics and Lewis hostage with him in the armory. It even claims the buckle of the sword saved him from a saber thrust. So maybe I remembered wrong or maybe that pre raid blew his cover early. But he also let a whole train go after telling everyone on board exactly who he was and what he was going to do.
shit like this is how you know he genuinely believed god had his back
that's fascinating though, i'll have to hunt down the dollop episodes about it! thanks for sharing
i'm pretty sure he got caught because he refused to stop a train of innocents that was leaving
See some threads below. Too lazy to edit rn.